Briefs

Trustees meet on campus: The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca today, May 23, through Saturday, May 25. The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 9 a.m. Friday in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 2002-03 financial plan for the contract colleges. The full board will convene in open session at the start of its meeting at 3:15 p.m. Friday in the Community Commons building on North Campus. During the open session, the board will hear a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke; and the annual report from Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, on "Diversity and Inclusion." The 2002-03 financial plan and contract college budget also will be presented.

The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will meet in open session at 5:30 p.m. today in the Rowe Room of the Statler. The committee will hear a report on the state budget and presentations from the Land Grant Mission Review committees.

These committees will meet Friday:

·The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet in open session at 9 a.m. in the Amphitheater of the Statler Hotel. Status reports on various construction projects will be presented.

·The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the start of its 1 p.m. meeting in the Yale-Princeton Room. A vote is scheduled on changing the name of the Floyd R. Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies to the F.R. Newman Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the Executive Committee and of the full board are available at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall.

Student teams triumph: Two student teams from Cornell won first and second place in the virtual competition of the WERC International Environmental Design Contest. They competed with more than 350 students representing 25 universities from the United States, India and Mexico. Sponsored by WERC: A Consortium for Environmental Education and Technology Development, the 12th annual contest was held at the New Mexico State University campus in April. The contest challenged student teams to provide solutions to environmental problems that had been submitted by private industry and government agencies. The Cornell teams won $2,500 and $1,000 respectively for their first- and second-place awards. The students on the winning teams are: Nickolaus Shuster, Margaret Morse, Amanda Richards, Benjamin Salter, Raphael Siebenmann, Melissa Stickle, Tara Watkins, Amadou Ange, David Johnson, Dennis Kwan, James Wang, Phech Colatat, Caroline Maier, Stephen Phillips, Tara Rizzo, Rosanna Severino, Lit Chek Lim, Emmanuel Ortiz, Walid Ramady and their advisers (also Cornell students) Japheth Larte-Gyamfi, Adrienne Gvozdich and Todd Walter.

Transportation Services hours: Transportation Services summer office hours, at 116 Maple Ave., will be 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m., beginning May 28, the day after Memorial Day.